It had been a while since I had visited Sassafras Gully at Springwood looking for fungi. It is one of the places I have been visiting regularly, but it had been fairly dry in the lower Blue Mountains compared to the coast, so I was not that hopeful. On this trip, I was accompanied by Liz Kabanoff. She is very good at spotting fungi and it was good to have her along.
We entered the valley via the Wiggins Track which leaves from near Bee Farm Road. The track has just reopened after it had been closed for a year or more due to asbestos being dumped near the start of the track. Straight away, we found quite a few Cortinarius out. Here are some –
We also found a few corals –
Not that many waxcaps were out. Here are some –
At the site of a campfire at the junction with Glenbrook Creek, we found these orange discs, probably Pulvinula archeri.
And some of the other fungi –
We returned the same way – via the Wiggins Track.
Back near the star too the track, Liz found some Banksiamyces toomansis. These are very tiny and grow on Banksia. I took a Banksia spike home and placed it in water for a while. Here is how the fungi changed –
We also spotted some more Nature –
More photos are online together with the identifications.